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NOBama's 'Justice Department' To Defend Torture Proponent

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UPDATED: Thursday, January 29, 2009 14:34
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Thursday, January 29, 2009 2:34 PM

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/18063.html

'...In Democratic legal circles, no attorney has been more pilloried than former Bush Justice Department official John Yoo, chief author of the so-called torture memos that Barack Obama last week sought to nullify.

But now President Obama’s incoming crew of lawyers has a new and somewhat awkward job: defending Yoo in federal court.

Next week, Justice Department lawyers are set to ask a San Francisco federal judge to throw out a lawsuit brought against Yoo by Jose Padilla, a New York man held without charges on suspicion of being an Al Qaeda operative plotting to set off a “dirty bomb.” '

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